--- product_id: 548865256 title: "Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West" brand: "andrew wilson" price: "€ 56.89" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 9 url: https://www.desertcart.hr/products/548865256-remaking-the-world-how-1776-created-the-post-christian-west store_origin: HR region: Croatia --- # Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West **Brand:** andrew wilson **Price:** € 56.89 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West by andrew wilson - **How much does it cost?** € 56.89 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.hr](https://www.desertcart.hr/products/548865256-remaking-the-world-how-1776-created-the-post-christian-west) ## Best For - andrew wilson enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted andrew wilson brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West ## Images ![Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71bMjQLt-XL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars Great author, great read *by K***L on Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2024* Interesting look at World history not just the American revolution, as you might think from the title. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars Extraordinary *by P***S on Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2024* This book is engrossing, clever and profound. If you love beautifully written tales of historical connections peppered with wonderful anecdotes woven in a tapestry of carefully crafted narrative this is it. This is an essential read for those trying to make sense of our current culture. It is a sophisticated, judicious, fresh analysis of the intellectual tectonics which have landed us us in this “WEIRDER” world. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars provides historical roots of our modern secular western world *by M***L on Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2023* Andrew Wilson has opened a window on the American Revolution. He connects the values and culture of 2023 to their headwaters in 1776. “ . . . 1776, more than any other year in the last millennium, is the year that made us who we are.” (p.7)Wilson’s work is dense, filled with evidence of years of research and reflection (the end notes are worth the price of the book). There are parts that must be read slowly. To ease the mind there are wonderful stories to illustrate his point. But his point, to me, was clear. If you want to understand how we got to this present moment in our secularized Western culture, you will find its sources present in 1776. We are where we are, not because we abandoned the ideas of the founders, but because we carried them to their logical conclusion. America was the fruit of the cultural memories of Christendom co-opted and subordinated to the purpose of Enlightenment political and cultural revolution.The book confirmed this conclusion. It is one that has been slowly forming in my thoughts for some time. Other books that have fed my reflections include The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, Plain Honest Men, and Novus Ordo Seclorum.SummaryWilson uses the acronym of our WEIRDER culture (borrowed and modified from this excellent book). Each letter stands for a stream that was forming at the time, and is now merged into our culture that is Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic, Ex-Christian, and Romantic. He devotes a chapter to each theme, showing its presence and influence in the year of the American Revolution.As I read I wondered why I had not been told previously that Thomas Paine, Edward Gibbon, Adam Smith, James Watt’s steam engine, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Captain James Cook were all active in that year. Along with these seminal thinkers, we find cries for the end to slavery, the disestablishment of the church, women voting, deep revival of the church, and rethinking all human ethics. There were even thinkers who insisted that if we throw God out and base all morals on reason, then there are no morals (the Marquis de Sade lived accordingly).Wilson provides a wide angle view of the year of the American Revolution. he has brought good scholarship and clear example together, so much so that I think I have gained a new understanding of how I see the world (to which I am blind or which I take for granted). My copy is filled with asterisks in the margins and earmarked pages.I recommend reading carefully, checking footnotes, and taking notes on every aspect of being WEIRDER.My TakeawaysHere is some of what I have gained in reading and rereading this work:Our cultural roots are complex and unique. Globalization, industrialization, free market economics, radical rejection of revelation for reason are all present. Human corruption is everywhere, including corruption among professed Christians (the leading churchman who was known to have many mistresses and at the same time was also appalled that Hume denied the afterlife). All the seeds of the modern sexual revolution, the idea that “I am what I feel,” the notion of freedom as the absence of any restraint were present then. They are not new. They were in the founders and political philosophers that shaped the American and French Revolutions (see Carl Trueman, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self for a complete description).Christianity was present, the fruit of 1000 years of Christendom. But for many “Christianity” was deism or a moral order or human rights. That brand of Christianity was stripped of sin and atonement, of repentance and faith, of the supernatural re-creation of a life in Christ. Faithful Christian profession was held by some, but the dominant stream was a movement seeking freedom from dogmatism. The Christianity of many of that day was a syncretism of radical reason based living with some dusting of Christian morals and terminology.The revolutionary stream was, to be sure, colored by the language of Scripture. Scriptural and theological ideas were part of the agreed upon talk of the day — not because those who used it were Bible affirming, Christ confessing, godly churchmen. Rather, just as most Muslims (practicing or not) use the name of God and the ideas of Islam in their daily greetings (“Peace be with you,” “if God wills”), so many of the founders spoke of divine law, Providence, and the Creator because it was the only way to talk.Given the confluence of many streams, gone is any possibility that America is a “Christian” nation, founded on “Christian principles,” purposed to preserve “Christian” influence against the tide of the enlightenment. In its place I find greater certainty that the American revolutionaries (our founders) were riding in a stream of opposition to the rule of Scripture, the hegemony of the church, and in their place, an assertion the power of “reason” to “build a new world.” The few faithful churchmen among them were breathing enlightenment air and may not have known how much it influenced them.I doubt many who think of America as Christian will find anything is this book convincing. Reading reviews of the book show me that. My observation is that people who believe and teach such have no real interest in the actual history. What they hold is a sentiment, kneaded into their hearts by some experience or influence. What they want to hear is the reinforcement of their sentiment. But that remark cuts both ways. There can also be an anti-Christian sentiment (the label given to the “dark ages” because they were a time when people believed God has spoken authoritatively), or the ideologically shaped radical rewriting of history (say the 1619 project)— neither of which has much to do with facts. Wilson is even handed. He blows up many of these ideas as well.I do not think I am the paragon of being “open to the facts” research. No one is. But what I do not want to do is abandon any possibility of a conclusion. That plays into the hands of demagogues and ideologues. Wilson warns about the danger of all forms of rewriting the past — citing George Orwell’s fiction in which no one remembers or cares about the past. From 1984: History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” The work of men like Wilson will guard us from this. ## Frequently Bought Together - Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West - Crisis of Confidence: Reclaiming the Historic Faith in a Culture Consumed with Individualism and Identity - Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual Revolution --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.hr/products/548865256-remaking-the-world-how-1776-created-the-post-christian-west](https://www.desertcart.hr/products/548865256-remaking-the-world-how-1776-created-the-post-christian-west) --- *Product available on Desertcart Croatia* *Store origin: HR* *Last updated: 2026-08-21*